School of Life Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, No. 5, Zhongguancun South Street, Haidian District, Beijing 100081, China.
State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, Department of Natural Medicines, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Peking University, No. 38, Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100191, China.
Molecules. 2017 Sep 29;22(10):1627. doi: 10.3390/molecules22101627.
has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine for the treatment of various diseases. Triterpenoids and flavonoids from the plant have many beneficial effects and their chemical structures are modified in the gastrointestinal tract after oral administration. However, absorption of these triterpenoids and flavonoids still needs to be defined. Here, the uptake and transepithelial transport of the selected major triterpenoids, glycyrrhizin (), glycyrrhetic acid-3--mono-β-d-glucuronide (), and glycyrrhetinic acid (); and the selected major flavonoids, licochalcone A (), licochalcone B (), licochalcone C (), echinatin (), isoliquiritin apioside (), liquiritigenin (), liquiritin apioside () isolated from , were investigated in the human intestinal epithelium-like Caco-2 cell monolayer model. Compounds , -, and were designated as well-absorbed compounds, and were designated as moderately absorbed ones, and , , and were assigned for the poorly absorbed ones. The absorption mechanism of well and moderately absorbed compound was mainly passive diffusion to pass through the human intestinal Caco-2 cell monolayer. These findings provided useful information for predicting their oral bioavailability and the clinical application.
甘草已被用作治疗各种疾病的传统中药。该植物中的三萜类化合物和类黄酮具有许多有益的作用,并且在口服后在胃肠道中被修饰其化学结构。然而,这些三萜类化合物和类黄酮的吸收仍需要确定。在这里,选择的主要三萜类化合物、甘草酸()、甘草酸-3--单-β-d-葡萄糖醛酸()和甘草次酸();以及选择的主要类黄酮、甘草查尔酮 A()、甘草查尔酮 B()、甘草查尔酮 C()、柚皮苷()、异甘草素-4'-O-β-D-吡喃葡萄糖苷()、甘草素()、甘草素-4'-O-β-D-吡喃葡萄糖苷()从甘草中分离出来,在人肠上皮样 Caco-2 细胞单层模型中进行了研究。将化合物、-、和指定为高吸收化合物,将和指定为中吸收化合物,将、、和指定为低吸收化合物。高吸收和中吸收化合物的吸收机制主要是通过被动扩散穿过人肠 Caco-2 细胞单层。这些发现为预测它们的口服生物利用度和临床应用提供了有用的信息。